Comments on: The Technology Rescuer http://futurismic.com/2008/09/21/the-technology-rescuer/ Presenting the fact and fiction of tomorrow since 2001 Sat, 19 May 2012 23:03:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Nancy Jane Moore http://futurismic.com/2008/09/21/the-technology-rescuer/comment-page-1/#comment-16334 Nancy Jane Moore Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:35:19 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=3987#comment-16334 Not to mention using lower case "l" for ones. I was completely shocked the first time I saw a keyboard that had a "1" on it. Despite being someone who ditched my old manual typewriter for a correcting Selectric (from IBM) as soon as I could afford it, and then started writing on computers back when they didn't have hard drives and you could only get 40 pages of double-spaced copy on a floppy -- that is, as someone who has eagerly adopted every advance in writing technology -- I still love an old manual typewriter. It was an elegant design. Not to mention using lower case “l” for ones. I was completely shocked the first time I saw a keyboard that had a “1″ on it.

Despite being someone who ditched my old manual typewriter for a correcting Selectric (from IBM) as soon as I could afford it, and then started writing on computers back when they didn’t have hard drives and you could only get 40 pages of double-spaced copy on a floppy — that is, as someone who has eagerly adopted every advance in writing technology — I still love an old manual typewriter. It was an elegant design.

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